string up
verb
- to hang by a body part (often the neck, usually with intent to kill)
Wiktionary
verb
- To kill (a person) by hanging, especially to lynch.
“I'd string up the whole lot if I had my way, Silver. Poachers and blackguards every one of them.”
“After years of brutal repression, any member of Saddam's palace guard stands to be strung up from the nearest lamppost by a vengeful Iraqi populace.”
- To die by hanging.
“"And now, my friend," said the Captain, "let us understand each other. You have confessed yourself a spy, and should string up to the next tree."”
- To suspend by means of rope, cord or similar material.
“He has scars on his ankles, feet and hands from where they strung him up with ropes and beat him.”
- To concatenate; to link in a line.
“to string up a sentence”